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[quote=Anonymous][quote]If MCPS goes back to Tracking, the progress of the past decade will indeed be gone.[/quote]

Unfortunately (and I mean that sincerely) you can not show any improvement over the past decade. There has only been decline. MCPS has gone from being #1 in the state to being #9.

Curriculum 2.0 failed and the audit showed that this failure had a disproportionate impact on lowering performing students. In addition by dumbing down the curriculum and doing such a poor job, MCPS pushed more UMC families toward supplementing outside of school creating an even deeper performance gap.

MCPS was counting on improved Algebra exam scores after 2.0 rolled out. The first year of failures they blamed the old curriculum. When the failure rates rose even higher the following year, they pressured the board to just remove the exams.

Tracking is alive and never went away at least in the DCC. The parents there demand differentiation because there is such a hug gap between students being several years below grade level and students being at or above grade level. [/quote]

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